🚀 go-pugleaf

According to rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette):
>In article <27975414.50A8@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>The "Differences from ANSI C" section of the ARM (18.2) does not
>>rescind that guarantee [T* -> void* -> T*].  Therefore, it must
>>still hold in C++.
>
>That's a bad assumption.  I have already noted other ommisions from
>the list in 18.2.  It is not a complete list.

I'd like to ask that Ron, or any anyone else with a list of omissions
in 1.82, post that list.  It should prove interesting.

I will conclude my discussion of |void *| thus:

Even if if the ARM and/or the ANSI C++ standard do not require that
the conversion of a |T *| to |void *| be reversible, *I* require it.
This behavior is obviously useful, hard to get wrong, and an integral
part of the programming model for which |void*| was invented.  Any
compiler that fails to provide this behavior will, in my opinion, have
earned the label "brain damaged," and wll not live on my hard disk.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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